Escapades to JFK and Time Square

My Nebraska friend flew in to Newark on the 17th. And my Czech housemate flew into JFK the same day a few hours later. On the map the trip of 36 miles from Newark to JFK looks like a piece of cake. But if you’ve ever driven it… you know it’s pure torture. What should take 30 minutes takes 3 hours.

So let me paint you a quick picture. My mum and I leave around noon to get to Newark on time. On the way we go through a horrid storm of rain and hail and have to slow down to maybe 5 mph. Then we get through the storm and to Newark. Again we were stuck in the storm. It was a good thing my friend’s plane had already landed. But she wasn’t allowed to disembark since the weather was so bad the ramp wasn’t safe. When we finally picked her up we headed off to JFK.

We spent almost 4 hours in the car got to JFK and waited for a text from our friend. We went in to the international arrivals and waited. Then she called… her plane had been rerouted to Washington DC and she was stuck there till JFK was open again. After we ate dinner we checked back and she was still in DC. So we shopped a bit. She was still in DC. Her plane was getting ready to take off soon but it was almost a 2 hour flight to JFK.

My mum was tired of waiting around the airport so what other option did we have but to go to the city! So we headed toward Time Square. My friend had never been to Time Square. So she was walking around looking up at everything. Sometimes I still do this. There’s just something magical about New York…

Any how we eventually collected everyone and the ride back from JFK was a fraction of what it had been that afternoon. All in all we were in bed by 2am and our early morning venture into NYC was put off a few hours.

The next afternoon we all headed into the city . There were a lot of place they wanted to see so my dad started with dropping us on Staten Island and we took the ferry over.

Past the bull…

Past Exchange Place…

And Wall Street…

And Trinity Church…

And on over to the Brooklyn Bridge. This was my first time walking on the bridge. We’d driven over it but never walked it.

From there we met with my dad and the car on canal street where he drove us to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral where hopped out for a few photos…

Before swinging by Rockefeller Center.

A quick photo stop at the Empire State Building...

Then it was dinner time and Time Square!!

I bought post cards. I’ve been buying NYC postcard for about 10 years now and I keep them tucked away in a tin. I’ve got quite an impressive collection… I don’t know what I’ll do with them… I like looking at the pictures on them… who knows I might wall paper my writing room with them…


That night when we got back from the city we were out of the car maybe half an hour before we were off again. This time it was beach time. That’s another post though…


Cheers,